Terminal City was the name of a free independent weekly magazine created and edited by Darren Atwater. The magazine was started in 1992. It had a significant cultural impact on the city during its long off-again on-again publication. Terminal City was distributed in the Vancouver area during the 1990s. It was blamed for having a role in the 1994 Stanley Cup Riot. It was one of the first papers to carry Dan Savage's "Hey Faggot" column. In 1996 it encouraged people off the street to run for Mayor of Vancouver, which resulted in 58 total names on the ballot. In future elections the fee requirement for city mayoral election was raised and applications had to be submitted in person rather than by fax. It ceased operation for several years until being revived in 2001. Approximately in 2004 the